Feature by Joanna Brichetto

Father’s Day is not always a Hallmark moment. The reality of family life is usually far from perfection; for some it is farther than others. Take these three authors: children of fathers gone for good, for bad or just gone, and all left with a legacy of regret, guilt, shame or uncertainty. Each book records the drama of adult children struggling to determine who their fathers really were,...

Feature by Joanna Brichetto

This month sees the release of a trio of books about three very different literary figures. Flannery O’Connor, John Cheever and Paule Marshall could hardly be more different from one another, except that all have created immortal works of fiction and all have lives worth examining. But why do we necessarily want to examine them? What is it we hope to learn that we cannot glean from the...